Pen-rack



(No Model.)

A. J. LOWRY.

PEN RACK.

10.548,646. Patented oct. 29, 1895.

f, 5 jg@ '3 @5V Ww UNITED STATES Enron@ y PATENT ALFRED JOHN LOWRY, OF HELENA, ARKANSAS.

PEN-RACK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 548,646, dated October 29, 1895.

Application tiled July 6, 1895.

To @Z5 whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, ALFRED JOHNLOWRY, a citizen oftheUnitedStates,residingat Helena, in the county of Phillips and State of Arkansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pen-Racks; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

.My invention is a temple pen-rack; and it consists of a plate to which is secured aspiral spring for holding apen or pencil and a bent spring Wire having one end pivoted to the plate, the balance of the wire intended to tit round the back of the head, the end resting against the opposite temple.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure lis an inverted perspective view of my invention. Fig. 2 is an elevation. Fig. 3 shows the invention in position. Fig. 4 is a detail view showing an adjustable slide.

My invention is described as follows:

a is a plate folded on itself, and between the two leaves of said plate is pivoted one end of a Wire b by the pivot c. Said Wire is bent to fit round the back of the head, and its free end d is bent at an angle of ninety degrees to the body of the wire. To the outer face of the plate a is secured a coil-spring pen-rack e.

W'hen I Wish to fold the device, I turn the wire b back in between the leaves of the plate a, carry the point d through the coil e, and hook the point ol in the coil. This form of pen-rack is for the cheaper style. For

more expensive ones I make a slide j', Fig. 4, by turning the end g of one wire over the Serial No. 555,105. (No model.)

Wire b and the free end b' of the wire b over the Wire g. Thus Ican adapt the Wire b to any sized head. I may also make the plate a Without folding it and simply pivot one end ofthe wire?) against the outer face of the plate a.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters i to said plate; spring wire g', secured to the wire b, by means of the slides g and h', substantially as shown and described and for the purposes set forth.

3. As an article of merchandise, a pen rack, consisting of a plate a; spring Wire b, pivoted to said plate; spring wire g', secured to the Wire b, by means of the slides g and b', the free end d, of the wire g', bent at an angle of ninety degrees to the body of the Wire, sub-V stantially as shown and described and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony whereof I athx my signature in presence of `two witnesses.

ALFRED JOHN LOIVRY.

Witnesses:

C. L. PAEKE, W. N. DAVIS. 

